Obama: "I don't think vouchers are the right way to go."

As mentioned in the previous post, Obama pivoted to Medicare when asked a question about Social Security. He then mentioned to go an entire answer without mentioning Paul Ryan, author of the budget that drastically reforms Medicare and has been a major attack of the Obama campaign.

In a follow-up, Obama finally hit the Romney-Ryan plan:

"I don't think vouchers are the right way to go."

He later added that Romney will be "putting seniors at the mercy of insurance companies" with a voucher.

Ben Smith calls the debate for Romney...40 minutes in.

BuzzFeed's Ben Smith called the debate for Romney...40 minutes into the debate.

His argument: Romney performed better in the first crucial 40 minutes.

"But Romney's core success was that he won by not losing: He has barely weathered a campaign that reduced him to a smaller figure than President Obama. On stage, they were roughly the same size," he writes.